The Faculty [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Rodriguez Robert Rodriguez

Overview

In this high-school horror film, school faculty members are infested with rapidly reproducing space worms that take over their minds and bodies. But never fear, because at this school, between hazing the student body and having sex in the locker room, a group of students are ready to fight back.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2020
UPC:	0032429345844
Original Release:	1998
Rating:	R
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:44:00
Sales rank:	9,770

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jordana Brewster	Delilah
Clea DuVall	Stokely
Laura Harris	Marybeth
Josh Hartnett	Zeke
Shawn Hatosy	Stan
Salma Hayek	Nurse Harper
Famke Janssen	Miss Burke,Meat
Piper Laurie	Mrs. Olson
Bebe Neuwirth	Principal Drake
Robert Patrick	Coach Willis
Usher Raymond	Gabe
Jon Stewart	Mr. Furlong
Elijah Wood	Casey
Daniel Von Bargen	Mr. Tate
Summer Phoenix	F*%# You Girl
Jon Abrahams	F*%# You Boy
Susan Willis	Mrs. Brummel,Officer No. 2
Christina Rodriguez	Tatoo Girl
Danny Masterson	F*%# Up No. 1
Wiley Wiggins	F*%# Up No. 2
Harry Knowles	Mr. Knowles
Donna Casey	Tina
Louis Black	Mr. Lewis
Eric Jungmann	Freshman No. 1
Chris Viteychuk	Freshman No. 2
Jim Johnston	P.E. Teacher
Libby Villari	Casey's Mom
Duane Martin	Officer No. 1
Mike Lutz	Hornet Mascot
Doug Aarniokoski	Brun Coach
Christopher McDonald	Casey's Dad
Michelle Holmes	student
Marco Beltrami	Composer

Technical Credits

Kevin Williamson

Robert Rodriguez	Director,Producer
Kevin Williamson	Screenwriter
Elizabeth Avellan	Producer
Bobby Brown	Stunts
Anne McCarthy	Casting
John McLeod	Special Effects
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Harvey Weinstein	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Steve Boeddeker	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Essentially an attempt to do for the science-fiction/thriller genre what the author had done for the slasher film with 1996's Scream, Kevin Williamson's The Faculty raised the question of where to draw the line between homage and theft. Lifting its plot directly from Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers and the films it inspired, The Faculty ostensibly gets itself off the hook by mentioning Finney's story in the film itself. Was it post-modernism or plagiarism? Regardless, with The Faculty, Williamson and director Robert Rodriguez craft a tight, suspenseful, consistently entertaining (up to a ludicrous finale), and subversive thriller. It's this last quality that most reviews at the time seemed to overlook. The Body Snatchers formula makes a natural fit for the film's conformity-mad high school setting and Williamson and Rodriguez make the most of pitting a band of outsiders, however photogenic and stylishly clad, against the personality-sapping forces of evil. Buried within you'll also find a not-particularly-subtle pro-drug message, an unusually unwholesome element which is at least at odds with the squeaky-clean images of high school put forth by the era's wave of teen films (She's All That, et al.).